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Declaration of War

Germany · Politics / SDP. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1913–1914Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1913

Friedrich Ebert1913

Politics / SDP

Persuades the SDP to vote for war credits to defend Germany from the Tsarist autocracy

1914

Friedrich Ebert1914

Berlin · Politics / SDP

Ebert leads the SDP party to vote almost unanimously in favour of war appropriations, accepting that a war was a necessary patriotic, defensive measure

Names involved

Friedrich Ebert

Provenance

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